The Sunday Oregonian., March 24, 1912, SECTION TWO, Page 4, Image 20

TTTE SUNDAY OHEQOyiAX, PORTLAyD, MARCIT 24,
EVOLUTION NOTED
IN POLE VAULTING
Athletes Use Bamboo in Pref
erence to Spruce Beam
Adopted Years Ago.
CLIMBERS IMPROVE FORM
tasge"tlons of Varoe to Dimnrr and
Placus Throweri How Beet Re
talti Are Obtained by Ito
feesiooaU and Amatear.
HT VtUJAX I. HATWARD.
Wreetor of Athlvtir at the ralrarsltr ef
Ore-aa.
, tFlftll artt'le of Tttk ead T4 serlee
Of tbe several event on the field pro
irtan, the pole vault la tbe on that
a undergone tne moat progressive
evolution during tha apace of tha past
five years. To appreciate tha decided
bound that It has taken recently we
. need only to review roughly the aver-
aae record, past and present.
At ona time, only a few yaara an,
aa 11-foot vault waa conaldered arood
' enoua-h to bur a championship any
where. But today. If ona cannot better
'. thla height be la hardly certain of mak
- tna bis own local team. Thla may be
, dua somewhat to tha marked supenor-
I Ity of tha bamboo pola now uaed In
, preferanca to tha spruce beam. It la
i lighter than tna apruca material ana
In It tha spring la mora equally dis
tributed. Then. too. tha form prac
ticed by tha modern cllmbera la far In
ad ranee of the old form, the "swallow"
; vault, characterized by the wide epreed
! of the hand a.
IteaJ mmd trastk Reaalrea.
Ftrat of all. tha successful vaulter
nruat have fair apeed and plenty of
etrenirth In hla ahouldera. arma and
abdomen. Tha pole ahould ba held by
the upper hand at a point a few lnchea
below the elevation of the croaabar.
with the lower hand (the left uaually)
la poaltlon to balance the pole while
the contestant ia approaching the take
off on the run. Aa the pole la planted
la the bole, tha lower hand ahould be
ilipped up to meet the upper hand and.
In tha spring upward, there ahould be
a pulling motion aa If ona were to chin
hlmaelf on a bar. The feet ahould ba
(hot well up and the pull continued
antll the turn la made. At thla stage
She "pull up" ahould be awltched Into a
fcpreaa up" In order to gain more
belght and a shove away from the pole
made to arma' length.
Those vaulters who are especially
strong In the shoulders and arms take
hold of the pole at a niche 12 lnchea
below tha elevation of the bar and. at
the turn, use the "fly away" finish, that
la. press up atrongly with a anap briek
enough to throw themaelvea up alx or
eight Inches. On the turn the body
ahould be In a curled position. One
- ahould stay with the pole until It la la
a perpendicular stand and. In letting K.
aaa the arma aa a balance so aa to as
sure aa easy fall and a light facing
the take off.
Haaway bbawld Be Meaaare.
The take off onca rightly determined,
tha vaulter ahould measure the dis
tance of hla runway and distribute
three marks alone the path. Thla dis
tance, generally between 70 and 10 feet,
ahould ba aet off by tha threw marks
t has It: The first at the starting point
ef the Tun In. the second at a place
bout one-third of the dlatance to the
vaulting standard and the third at the
half-way station. From this third mark
tha athlete should run at full .peed un
til he reachea the regular take off.
Care ahould be taken that the arma
are not toe etralsht when the pole la
planted for the aacent. since that would
throw the strain of the Jerk on the
ahouldera. a circumstance that might
cause the vaulter to "swing under."
The Jerk should be distributed between
tha shoulders and arms, with a alight
bend at the elbowa to 1esen the force
of the twist on the equilibrium of the
body.
Pall Meat Be Ttaaea.
It is necessary to time the "pull op."
according to the height of the cross
atlck For. If a vaulter used the same
"pull up" at 11 feet that he did at la
feet, he would find his body turned
before be reached the bar and. the
rhancea are. he would drop down on
the rroaa bar Instead of eliding ovr
and beyond It. , t
Before attempting any dlaay heights,
a pole climber should practice -chinning"
a good deal and take a lot of
pressing up" exercise. One must try
te master the curl over tbe bar done
by drawing tn at the abdomen an
pressing up on the pole with the
"heads. Just as the turn la made. Tbe
acquisition of a strict, mechanical
-form" la absolutely eaaential toa
'polnt-wlnnlng pole vaulter.
Hiaatr Threw Baaxgeatleava.
The hammer throw, like all field
events, la bard to describe to a person
; who baa no previous knowledge of It.
However. I think the following will
prove helpful to beglnnara:
Remember, the double-turn method
. Ja far In advance of the old single-turn
. atria, because of tha greater apeed one
ran develop under It. and speed Is what
the thrower wanta Some even uaa the
' three-awing turn. But. comparing all
' forma It baa been proven that the
double turn baa more advantage over
.'the alngle turn than the treble baa
over the doable.
(' Tn deeerlblng how to make the double
mrn. I know of no better way than to
outline tha following mechanical In
struction: Through the hammer ring draw two
straight lines. 1 or 10 Inches apart,
pointing In the direction that the
weight Is to be thrown. In placing one
foot on each of these lines, atand aa
near the back edge of the ring as pos
alble. Keep the arma straight- Turn
the hammer over your head, making
the low point of the awing on the right
and the blgh point on the left for right
handed throwers opposite for left
handed. The angle of the awing ahould
be about t degreea and not more than
three preliminary awtngs are needed
to gain apeed and body balance. .
Haw te'Beala Tare.
On beginning the turn, draw the left
foot (behind the right) back to a apot
between the parallel lines that will
form the third point of a triangle, in
relation to the spike prints made by the
feet in their original position.
Then pivot on the left foot and bring
the right foot around to the same line
first occupied, but about two feet to
tha rear of tha left fool position. Place
the le(t foot back until It assumes tha
ante relation to the right that It did at
the etartlng point and pivot for the
second turn. Then repeat tbe first turn
and finish with the back facing the
throwing direction. Tut all of your
strength Into the final heave at the
finish.
. It would be well to practice "anchor
ing" with the right toe. Thla Is done
by dragging It around on the throw, a
simple frl-tlon brake device that
aerree ep the texliclpecl, within
the throwing ring and lessena the prob
ability of a foul throw. Using this
form, the thrower reachea the back of
tha ring with both heels near tbe edge
and facing the direction opposite to
the throw.
Tenataat Pravrtlee Reaatrad.
The final heave will naturally have
a tendency to make the thrower face
the direction of the throw, but the feet,
flxed In crossed position, must not be
moved. To gain the proper form and
balance, constant practice must oe in
dnirerf In. Do not Jump ur on the
turn, but stay near the ground and al-
waya keep the hammer bach or you in
order to get In a good atrong awing on
tha final throw. Do not "fall away"
from the hammer on the finish. bn
allow the body to go with It aa far as
no.ihle without leaving the confines
of the ring.
tn ihrowlM tha discus weight, tn
I fci inrk i ut learn how to sail the
missile so thst It travels in smovin
fashion while In the air. without any
wobbling from aide to side. To Insure
this steady flight hold the eight
.....i. i. i k m hand, nalma down and
I fingers apart, with the first Joints of
the hand crooked slightly over the rim.
Aa It leaves allow It to pass off the
first Joint of the Index finger.
Fall Swim Required.
As In the case of the hammer event,
the weight must be held well behind
I the body so as to give the arm a chance
j for a full awing. The "form" for the
discus Is similar to that for the ham
mer.
Start In the aame position In the
ring. but. after the first turn. Instead
of putting the left foot down aa In the
first turn of the hammer, carry It more
to the rear with the left side facing
the throwing direction. Make the "re.
verse" aa In tbe finish of the shot with
the full arm awing. Ftoop slightly Into
a aquatted position until you reach the
reverse, when you should straighten to
full length. Finish on the right foot
and In a position reaching well to the
front.
(In his lth and concluding article
next week Trainer Hayward will de
velop the remaining events on the track
and field card the running broad
Jump, the running high Jump and the
J a vol In throw.
WEtL-RXOWX PHYSICAL DI
RECTOR IS OPERATED OX.
Nature of Malady Make Delicate
Case but Patient Is Expected to
Be Out Soon.
P.obert Krohn. superintendent of
physical culture of the rortland public
schools and of the Multnomah Amateur
Athletic Club, and a leader of physical
culture work in the city, underwent a
serious operation at the Good Samari
tan Hospital Friday afternoon. He la
recovering rapidly and hie physician
announces that he may be able to leave
within a week or 10 days.
Mr. Krohn waa operated upon for an
abscess of the throat from which he
had been Buffering for almost two
weeks. He entered the hospital Fri
day. March 16. but It was neceasary to
defer the operation until the forma
tion had reaohed the proper stage. The
nature of the affection waa auch as
to make the operation extremely deli
cate. Mr. Krohn suffered somewhat before
the operation and at times hae con
siderable difficulty In breathing, but
his condition la now Improving as
speedily as circumstances will permit.
The nature of the malady and the op
eration have proven a combined cause
of a nervous shock to his system, and
aa a result it will be soma time before
he may receive callers. The operation
was performed by Dr. J. O. C. Wiley,
assisted by Lira A. J. Giesy and George
F. Wilson.
Mr. Krohn has resided In Portland
for almost 10 years and In that time
has been active in furthering the In
tereeta of sports and physical culture
exercises here. In the schools he baa
brought thla department to a high
atandard of efficiency. He has also
promoted the various children's drills
which have been a feature of Rose
Festival entertainments In previous
years, and of other clvlo occasions.
AMERICAX CAPTURES WEIGHTS
Zlerlcr, Rhodes Scholar, First In
Shot and Hammer at Oxford.
LONDON. March II R. L. Lange. of
Oklahoma: W. A. Zlegler, of Iowa, and
E. H. HubbelL of Chicago. Rhodes'
scholars, were among the repreaenta
tlvea of Oxford In the annual athletic
competitions between that university
snd Cambridge University at Queen'a
Club. Kensington.
Laage waa able to obtain only third
place In the 100-yard race, which was
won by the Cambridge crack. Duncan
MacMtllan. In la seconds flat, hut the
welgbt-tbrowtng was won by Zlegler.
with a throw of 40 feet 10 Inches,
while Hubbeli wss third, with IS feet
Inches.
W. A. Zlegler won the hammer
throwing event with a throw of 1JJ
feet 4 Inches.
The meet resulted In a tie. each uni
versity taking Ave events. No records
were made, rain falling all through
the conteat.
Yale Gymnast Wins.
HAVERTORD, Pa., March IS. Cal
lahan, of Tale, won the Individual Inter-
KROHN IN DOGTOR'SCARE
JEWISH BOYS' ATHLETIC CLUB BASKETBALL FIVE, CHAM
PIONSHIP CLAIMANTS.
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KKOM I.FJ"T TO RIGHT THK BOYS AHF L. GOLDSTOXE, FOR.
WAROl J. HMOKOOX, Gl ARU B. IIARDU CKNTEHl to 8HKR
MX, ClAFtDi M. WKIMSTK1. KORWARO) M. WEISER, FOR.
WARD AM CAPTAIX.
The basketball five of the Jewish Boys' Athletic Club, lays claim
to the U5-pound championship of Portland by virtue of a record of
14 victories and five defeats for the season lust ended. Although the
lub haa been In the basketball field for only two seasons, a number
of the fastest minor aggregation in the city were walloped.
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HIGH, SCHOOL ATHLETES
oollegtate gymnastic championship here
last night -lth a score or jsjh P"'""
Hosp. of Pennsylvania, was second,
with 226 points. Huge, of Tale, waa
third, with 215. Yale won the cham
pionship with a acore of 24. Pennsyl
vania, was aecond with 17. Princeton
scored SV4: Rutgers. 8; New York Uni
versity, 4; Haverford. 1. and the t'nl"
verslty of Illinois. H.
1 1 COLLEGES ARE
GAMES
Athletes From All Coast
Enter
Meet.
BERKELEY. Cal- March 23. (Spe
cial.) Twelve universities and colleges
will be represented at the annual track
nd field championships under the au
spices of the Pacific Coast Conference
Association, which takes place here on
May 4. Athletes from all parte of the
Pacific Coaat will compete.
Tha Pacific Northwest will be well rep-
reaented. Oregon. Washington. Wash
ington State and the Oregon Agricul
tural College, of COTvallls, are the
Northwestern colleges that have sig
nified their Intention of striving for
Coast track and field laurels. Both
Oregon and Washington will be rep
resented by full-slsed teams. Washing
ton State and the Oregon Agricultural
College will each send several of their
stars.
The IS universities and colleges that
will compete in the big meet are Cali
fornia. Stanford. Oregon, Washington.
Oregon Agricultural College. Washing
ton State, the University or xsevaaa, me
University of Southern California. Po
mona. Occidental. Whrttier, St. Mary's
and Hanta Clara College.
Since last year the conference has
gained a membership of seven colleges.
The original association which a-as
formed In 1008 waa composed of Ore
gon. Washington, Ptaniora. caniornia
and Nevada. During the past ten
months the seven new members ad
mitted to the Conference are Oregon
Agricultural College. Washington State
at Pullman, and the trio of Southern
colleges. University of Southern Cali
fornia, Occidental and Pomona. The
three are sometimes called the "big
three" of the South, and are the lead
era tn collegiate clrclea In the South
land. St. Mary's and Santa Clara, the
other two members of the conference,
were sdmltted last January. They are
Catholic colleges and leaders In ath
letics, Arlsona University has not yet
become a member, but Is expected to
Join soon.
The meet on May 4th promises to be
closely contested. At this stage of the
season it appears that the struggle for
championship honors rests among five
colleges. Washington. Oregon. Cali
fornia. Stanford and the University ot
Southern California. California won
the meet last year. The University of
Southern California looms up strongly
In the foreground. Recently the Meth
odists gave California a close call in
the annual dual meet, which waa won
by California after a cloae struggle.
Two days will be devoted to the
running off of the meet. Friday after
noon haa been set for the preliminaries
In the track and field events. Finals
will be run off Saturday afternoon.
During their atay on the campua the
visiting athletes from the Northwest
and other points will be the guests of
the University.
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ATHLETES 111
High Schools to Put Strong
Teams in Columbia Meet.
JAMES BAY TO SEND MEM
Annual Indoor Event Promises to
Outdo former Track: and Field
Games Colleges to Send Fast
Squads to Take Part. .
With but three more weeks to get
in shape for the big Columbia Univer
sity All-Northwest track meet. April
IS, the track training camps of the city
are beginning to assume lively form.
The loiterers at the first call for prac
tice are now out trying to make up
for lost time. All the schools of the
city with the exception of Hill Military
Academy have squads of more than 60
at work every night.
The ninth annual meet In the Colum
bia University stadium promises to be
one of the most sucessful ever held
anywhere in the Northwest. It will at
least be the largest. This Indoor dirt
field Is the only one of Its size in this
section.
Maay to Eater Bleet.
Although none of the entries have
been officially received, the manage
ment of the affair has received oral
acceptances numerous enough to guar
antee success. One of the latest to de
clare Its Intention of participating Is
the James Bay Athletic Asociation of
Victoria, B. C. This club is strong in
the North and probably will figure
heavily in the different events to be
held here.
Undoubtedly the Washington High
School will be one of the strongest of
prep school banda that will be at the
affair. Under Coach Veatch this school
has developed one of the strongest ag
gregations of track material in the
Northwest and one that it Is safe to
say will make a good showing against
any of the high schools of the Pacific
Coast at the coming track meet at the
University of California.
Although Coach Veatcb does not spe.
clause in his training of the men to the
extent of deeloping one man for each
event, the school will be strong In all
the features, at the rate the men are
going through their stunts now. Robert
Krohn looks like a winner of the pole
vault for another season unless some
thing unexpected happens.
Blew Men May Be Factors.
Richard Grant and Dltmore, the new
man from east of the Rockies, ought
to be able to take aomethlng for the
school tn the runs. Hedges has been
making good with the shot and will
be a hard man to eliminate.
The other schools are working along
without Baying much and may spring
some surprises when the season is
finally here.
Jefferson has a few of the best men
of last year who are making good
again. Arthur Lawrence, the crack
high Jumper, will be In the traces to
settle for good and all the disputes
over the relative merits of himself and
Woodworth of Lincoln High. At the
University of Oregon, Woodworth beat
Lawrence by about an inch. On the
other hand Lawrence has bested the
record of the Lincoln man at some of
the meets. As he went into the Ore
gon meet against his wishes as he was
out of shape.' the fans think that the
matter cannot be fairly sized up from
last season's work.
Hill Haa Several Stars.
Hill Military Academy will enter at
least four or five of the stars who
formerly worked with the other schools
of Portland. Warren Jackson, the 220
yard atar. will probably run in this
event. Stiles and Os and Jack Day will
also be on the ground.
The results of the subscription being
passed around at Jefferson have not
been totaled as yet. but It is probable
that thst school will also send a team
to the University of California meet.
Lawrence and Blbee. the winner of
hurdle races last year, ought to be able
to make good.
i'ortlan Xcadamy iiae OJX srQ0 man,
0
in the person of Robert Fithian, the
sprinter. Powell, a man recently from
Chicago, is also working for track and
If he can do as good in track as in foot
ball he will be a material aid to the
academy.
Columbia University will have a
strong team entered in its own affair
which will be able to hold its own
against most of the teams. Lacey,
Kirkland, Goretzky, and Malarkey will
be some of the sprinters who will work.
Colleges te Send Big Teams.
Oregon University and Oregon Agri
cultural College will send large squads
to the meet. The Honeyman Hardware
Company has again offered a handsome
trophy to the team winning the most
points In the field events. O. A. C. won
this last year while the Lemon men
took it home the year before.
This meet will be a good tryout for
the prospective high school men for
tne various meets to followT The com
plete category of such for the season
is as follows: April 13, Columbia Uni
versity; April 28, University of Cali
fornia; May 10. University of Oregon;
May 18, Oregon Agricultural College,
and May 25, interscholastic track, and
field meet at Portland.
The teams here were invited to the
Stanford University meet, but two trips
to the south would bo impossible, and
as the California events were consid
ered more popular, Stanford will be
passed up.
All entries for the Columbia Univer
sity meet must be in by April 6. The
stadium has been overhauled and the
dirt floor scraped and everything as far
as the grounds are concerned will be
in fine shape. The weather will have
absolutely no effect on the affair, as
the Btadiura is large enough to enclose
all the events.
V. M. C. A. Relay Team Wins,
The T. M. C. A. relay team won the
ten-mile race held with the Portland
Academy runners at the Y. M. C. A.
gymnasium Friday night, making the
distance in 53 minutes and 30 seconds.
Henney and Kurtz showed good form
for the Portland Academy men.- The
runners for Portland Academy were:
Bresky. Henney, McClung, Walker and
Kurtz. For the T. M. C. A.: Pay ton,
Hartman, McDonald, Vanderlip and
Booth,
Western Marathon May 4.
ST. LOUIS. March 23. The annual
Marathon of the Missouri Athletic Club,
which this year will be the Western
tryout for the Olymplo candidates, will
be held on May 4, according to an
nouncement today.
GRASS VALLEY
BASKETBALL FIVE
CHAMPIONS.
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.TO ea. a";
The Above Picture Skews the Graaa Taller Basketball Quintet, Undis
puted Champions ef Shermaa County Tbe Team Only Lost One
Game Daring tbe Season, te the Goldendale Champions ef the Co
lumbia Valley League, and Contends, That the Goldeadale La da Re
filled a Second Meeting.
ATHLETES
ADOPT
NEW PLAN
Permanent Olympic Organiza
tions Formed in U. S. Emu
lated in Europe.
SWEDISH RULES PLEASE
American Stars to Follow Regula
tions Closely In All Meets to Be
come Familiar With Require
ments Rules Exchanged.
BY EDWARD B. BUSHNEUL..
One of the most encouraging bits
of evidence that the quadrennial
Olympic games are to Increase in im
portance as an International athletic
feature Is the fact that a number of
foreign countries have followed the
example set by the United States and
converted their temporary Olympic
Associations into permanent organiza
tions. England was the first coun
try to emulate the Americans.
The permanent organization of so
many Olympic associations means that
the next time the Olympic games are
held in this country there will be a
good foreign representation. In 1S04,
when the Olympic games were held at
St. Louis, the representation of foreign
teams amounted to practically nothing.
This was due. In a measure, to the fact
that the revived Olympic games had
hardly been firmly established. As a
matter of fact even the Kastern col
lege athletes of this couctry paid but
little attention to the games and no
effort was made to get together a real
American team. The international
rivalry produced by the London games
In 1908 was responsible for the perma
nent interest which haa expressed Itself
in permanent Olympic associations.
Trjouta Under Swedish Rules.
The American committee has un
doubtedly made a wise move In decid
ing to hold all three tryouts according
to the Swedish rules. The Swedish
regulations are eminently fair and will
not handicap the Americans in any par
ticular. However, the Americans need
to be familiar with the rules which are
to govern their competition at Stock
holm, and no better method could be
devised for familiarizing them with
the rules than compelling them to con
duct their meets in accordance with
them.
As far as the athletes themselves are
concerned, the new rules affect only
the weight men. In the field events,
throwing the hammer, the discus and
putting the shot, the Swedes have pro
vided that the competing athletes will
not be allowed to use their own im
plements. They must use a hammer,
a shot and discus furnshed by the
Swedish committee.
In the hammer throw and discus
particularly our own athletic authorl
ties have had much trouble in secur
ing authentic records. It has so fre
nnpntJv been found either that there
was some defect in the construction of
a discus, that the weight was short or
the handle of the hammer not maae in
accordance with the rules, that a good
many supposedly new records had to
be disallowed. The care which the
American committee insists shall De
exercised in the construction and
weight of these Implements should be
of an advantage to the American ath
lete.
The only rule which can possibly af
fect the track events applies more par
ticularly to the official timers than to
the runners themselves, anere is to
be a regulation compelling the timers
to have their watches tnorougniy ex
mained and tested before the race and
after the race. Before there is any
conference of officials an inspector is
to examine all the watches ana reg
later the time on each.
The American committee and ath
letlc authorities in this country in gen
eral are much pleased with the fair
ness of the Swedish rules as recently
announced. This country has main
tained ever since the 190S games that
the International Olympic council n
.ir Bhnuid establish a set of uniform
rules to govern these quadrennial
meets. The council, however, has
shown a disinclination to attempt to
bring about this uniformity of rules.
It has maintained that the country
managing the games should have the
privileges of deciding what rules
should govern the games and likewise
to select its own officials. There is no
doubt that the rules of the Swedish
Olympic Association, If properly en
forced, will be a decided Improvement
over those with which England man
aged the 108 meet.
South African Team Strong.
Reports from South Africa Indicate
that the men from the veldt expect to
make an even better showing than they
did In 1908, when Walker astonished
the athletic world by winning the 100
meters dash, and when Heffron fin
ished next to Hayes in the Marathon
run. It is the Intention of the South
Africans to send a team of eight men.
Of this number they have one who they
expect will take the place of Malker.
SHERMAN COUNTY
IJilfil
FOREIGN
iffl
His name Is Patching and according to
South African records he haw done
both the 100 and 200-yards events In
better than'even time. On what was
said to be a poor track lie last yenr
made a new South African record of
22 1-5 for the furloncr.
The rest of the athletic world will no
doubt be content to waft developments
to see whether or no the new rhenom
Is really as fast as reported. Walker,
of course, was the sensation of the
South African team in 190$. Previous
to these games he hud not done any
thing remarkable and did not even give
great surprise in the Enpltsh cham
pionships of that year. Even when he
won his heat In the first preliminary
of the Olympic tryouts, he did not at
tract much attention, and only when
he equalled the Olympic record of 10 4-5
seconds in the semi-final did he arouse
any fear. But even then nine-tenths
of "the English and other critics picked
Rector, the American, to beat him. Bit
Walker seemed to get stronger with
each succeeding heat whereas Rector
was notably off form in the final. If
Patching is really as good a man as
Walker it will take a new Olympic
record to beat him at Stockholm.
In addition to being a wonderful
sprinter, Patching is said to be unusu
ally strong in both the quarter and half
runs. He now holds the South African
record of 49 seconds for the 440 yards
run. His friends say that with tlie
proper training he can do. 48 seconds.
He is also reported to have done two
minutes for the half mile. If lie can
make good at all these distances he
will prove himself to be a second Con
Myers.
Youngster Make fiood Showing.
In the middle distances South Africa
has a man by the name of Victor who
has a record of l.SS for the half and
4.28 for the mile. He is only a young
ster and great thlnes are predicted for
him. Another wonderful man whom
South Africa claims to have Is J. A.
Stegmann, who is piven a record of 23
feet in the broad jump in spite of the
fact he is only a preparatory school
student.
South Africa expects K. K. MeArthur
to duplicate the performances of Heff
ron, the 1908 Marathon runner. Last
Easter he established the South African,
record of 52 minutes 46 1-5 seconds for
the 10-mile run at Durban. On one oc-.
casion he ran a Marathon race over
the regulation distance in two hours
42 minutes. If the condition of the road
was as bad as the South African re
ports indicate, this man will bear the
closest watching.
Reports from England are to the ef
fect that Baker, the Cambridge half
and mile champion, intends to special
ize on the half-mile run. In a rece.nt
set In intercollege games he ran the
distance in 1.59. English critics who
have seen him perform .predict that
it will take 1.55 to beat him this Sum
mer. y
Latest information from England is
to the effect that the British Olympio
committee has decided that it cannot
use any of the American Rhodes schol
ars on the English team. This is duo
to an Olympic regulation which pro
vides that the representatives of each
country shall be naturalized citizens.
This ruling will deprive the Kngllslv
team of two unusually good men at
Oxford. They are Lange. who has a
record of 10 seconds for the 100 yards,
and Putnam, who lias a mark of nearly
160 feet for the hammer throw. Lam?o
hails from the state of Oklahoma and
Putnam comes from Kansas.
For a country which has never dona
anything of note In international ath
letics, Germany is proceeding Indus
triously to develop a good team. A:
number of athletic meets have already
been held in Berlin and other cities
during the Winter and many more are
planned for the Spring. The best man
that Germany has at present is Tasse
mann. who won both the pole vault and
the high Jump at the English cham
pionship last Summer. in the P'"lo
vault he can do better than 12 feet and
he has a record of six feet in tho hiRli
jump. ,
The latest sensation in the American
athletic world Is Sargent, a University
of Michigan student, who in a set of
indoor games last week cleared tho bar
at six feet four inches. If he can even
approach this height consistently he
will be a most useful man for the Wol
verines in the coming intercollegiato
COAST TEAM
IS CHOSKV
Christie and Moulton Tick Best
Track Athletes.
BERKELEY. Cal., March 23. (Spe
ciak) The University of Orecon is
given two representatives on the Pa
cific Coast all-star college track team,
selected by Coach Walter Christie, of
tlys University of California, and "Dad"
Moulton, the well-known track coach
of Stanford University. Hawkins, tho
crack hurdler, who scored in the con
ference games last year, and Neal,
javelin thrower, are the Oregon ath
letes assigned berths on the all-star .
aggregation. Altogether four men
representing the universities of the
Pacific Northwest are given places on
the all-star team.
Christie and Moulton, the men who
. j . i .AF.n, a ri wall nrin.nterf for
nicnea mo 1 ' -
the work. Christie, before coming to
the University oi uaiiiornia, nam.
. , . i mVtoll tnmi of Prlnce-
xne 1 1 tii . ouu iwwtwM...
ton University and has handled some
of the best college and professional
athletes ever turned out in America.
Moulton, the veteran Stanford trainer,
is recognized as an authority on track
athletics in all parts of the country.
11-...V.1 . T'r.iTnviifv is also reore-
Eented by two men Brailey Gish, tha
intercollegiate quarier-mne wum.h"".
and Hugh Bowman, Coast champion
pole vaulter. Gish Is placed on tne
team In tne quarier-mue au .
.i v. nnu vault honors. Gish
is given mo " 11J " -
was selected for the quarter-mile run
on his great showing at the conference
games and nis nne ruuu...6 - "
ot Pittsburg. The
iionai cumi . , " , T .
big fellow ran a yard behind Lindberg.
the University of Chicago crack, in the
. . i Tn o fiish was also
named as the greatest all-around ath
lete on the pacinc wui,
j H is Disced in the
same class as those two great all-
around athletes Ot Amaru.
, h Irish-American Atli-
letlc Club, of. New York, and Thomp
son, of Princeton.
With a record ot 12 teet. hub du-
- needed to be the Coast s
greatest pole vaulter. He was head
and shoulders above all the other pole
vault, artists of the Pacific Coast col
leges. . , , .
Hawkins l picKea mr . -
u. fart a trreat race against
Beeson, of California, ir the low flight
last Spring.
Vtawkins is regaraeu. i -iuci
tne Virdles and great things are ex
pected of him this year. Hawkins' time
of 25 seconds flat for the low hurdles
stamps him as one of the best collet
hurdlers Ut ever competed on the
Coast.
Neal rs a greai Javelut-thrower. ac.
cording to the critics, awS easily merifl
a place on the team.
The remainder of the team was cocr
posed of California, Stanford and Uni
versity of Southern California men.
The University ot California represen
tatives are: Wood, one mile; Crabhe.
two mile; Fred Allen, broad jump;
Rice, shotput; Shattuck, hammer throw.
Stanford Is represented by Paul McKee
in the two 20-yard dash and Ed. Horine,
American intercollegiate high-jumper.
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1 ne u . v i .-.! . ...... ... .. -
I is represented by one man, Waldo
' Throop.
This is the first all-star tracK team
ever picked on the Pacific Coast. The
second team will be selected immedi
ately after the close of the college
track, season..